Rajnath Singh is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Defence Minister of India since 2019. Singh also served as the Union Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. Rajnath Singh was the president of the BJP twice from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Lucknow constituency of Uttar Pradesh for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Singh won the Lucknow seat by defeating Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi with a margin of 2,72,749 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Singh retained the Lucknow constituency by defeating Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Poonam Shatrughan Sinha with a margin of 3,47,302 votes. Rajnath Singh also represented the Ghaziabad parliamentary seat from 2009 to 2014. Singh was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister from 2000 to 2002 and also won the Haidergarh Assembly constituency twice in 2001 (bypoll) and 2002. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2002 to 2008. Singh also served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Agriculture (2003-2004) and Road Transport and Highways (1999-2000) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. Rajnath Singh is again contesting from the Lucknow constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his top Cabinet ministers to review 1 year of his government's performance.Modi, who returned home after six-day tour of three Asian countries last night, chaired the meet
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, seeking revival of the mega food park project in his constituency Amethi and rejecting the contention of Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur that lack
Pratapgarh (Rajasthan): Speaking on the lines of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) agenda to push for Hindu icons, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday said that Rajput king Maharana Pratap was a greater hero than
New Delhi: Family of Manoj Vashishtha, who was killed in an encounter at restaurant in Rajendra Nagar, met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at latter's residence today.After the meeting, Priyanka, wife of deceased, said that
Pratapgarh: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today welcomed Rajasthan government's decision to include a chapter on iconic figures like Maharana Pratap in school textbooks and said he would urge the HRD minister to consider inclusion
Nagpur: BJP national president Amit Shah is arriving here tomorrow to meet the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.Bhagwat had met senior BJP leader and the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh here yesterday. RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji
New Delhi: Union Home Minster Rajnath Singh on Friday said BJP does not practice vendetta politics, a statement that comes against the backdrop of Haryana government ordering a judicial probe into the Robert Vadra land
Nagpur: Stating that there has been a 20-25 per cent drop in Naxal violence in the rebel-affected areas in last 10 to 12 years, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said though the government wants
New Delhi: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has sought an immediate meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, saying she was getting constant threats from a Bangladesh jihadi group, in the backdrop of three secular bloggers being
PM Narendra Modi to kick start three-nation visitPrime Narendra Modi yesterday night left for three-nation visit to China, Mongolia and South Korea. He will visit Shiyan, Beijing and Sanghai during his stay in China from
New Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been put on alert after two earthquakes struck India with epicentres in Nepal and Afghanistan."The Home Ministry is collecting details and information about any damage from
New Delhi: India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan, Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit said today, rubbishing Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement in the Lok Sabha.“Uskey baarey mein yehi kehna hai ki
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said in the Lok Sabha that 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan and that India has credible information about his presence there.Singh said
Ayodhya: A dearth of majority in the Upper House of Parliament was coming in the way of BJP to bring in a motion and make law for construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Union
Lucknow: Reacting to ‘hostage' situation in Chhattisgarh during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit today, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh here said the government was fighting against naxalism and efforts were on to rescue villagers.Talking to
Lucknow: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said he will make a statement in Parliament on Monday or Tuesday on the issue of Dawood Ibrahim against the backdrop of controversy following his junior minister's contention that
New Delhi: Government today sought to take the sting out of the opposition attack on the whereabouts of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, with Home Minister Rajnath Singh telling Lok Sabha that the NDA government's reply was
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh complaining about a lack of communication between the Centre and Delhi government which, he said, was delaying decision making. In the
New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women has written to the Home Ministry, the Delhi LG and city police commissioner on AAP leader Kumar Vishwas' failure to appear before it in a case in which
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